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| Registered: March 10, 2007 |  Posts: 524 |
| | Posted: | | | | I need some examples of DVDs that have the credits in Capital letters. Please provide UPC and locality if possible. Trying to do some research.
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-Gerri | | | | Invelos Software, Inc. Representative |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 5,481 |
| | Posted: | | | | Gerri..- Do you mean credits in the film or the rear jacket scan?? | | | In the 60's, People took Acid to make the world Weird. Now the World is weird and People take Prozac to make it Normal.
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 |  Posts: 555 |
| | Posted: | | | | Locality UK:
- The Ferpect Crime, EAN 807839003215
Credits are all in caps, and there are no accents (except for ñ), although many of the cast and crew names would include accents had the credits not been capitalized. I contributed this profile myself. |
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 5,459 |
| | Posted: | | | | If that's the sort of thing you're after - I currently have two pending:
Disc ID: IC4BE610103A724B6, Locality: UK - Cul-de-sac
Some names are all caps, others are mixed case. Again a couple of all caps names would have accents if they weren't all caps. I'll check tonight to see if any of the mixed case names have accents.
UPC: 085393-746520, Locality: US - The Name of the Rose
credits all in caps. This one is interesting as there's a German name which includes the accent, and a French name which doesn't (which follows each country's capitalisation rules). | | | | Last edited: by northbloke |
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| Registered: March 10, 2007 | | Posts: 524 |
| | Posted: | | | | I mean film credits. | | | | Invelos Software, Inc. Representative |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 3,830 |
| | Posted: | | | | Locality Netherlands:
Miami Vice:
5-050582-444056
5-050582-501308 | | | | Sources for one or more of the changes and/or additions were not submitted. Please include the sources for your changes in the contribution notes, especially for cast and crew additions. |
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| | Posted: | | | | Should we try and go through Ken's collection and try and pick films that you can look at yourself? Or is that something for further down the line? |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 3,830 |
| | Posted: | | | | | | | | Sources for one or more of the changes and/or additions were not submitted. Please include the sources for your changes in the contribution notes, especially for cast and crew additions. | | | | Last edited: by ? |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 2,759 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting northbloke: Quote:
UPC: 085393-746520, Locality: US - The Name of the Rose
credits all in caps. This one is interesting as there's a German name which includes the accent, and a French name which doesn't (which follows each country's capitalisation rules). If you are talking about the German umlaut (two dots), then those are not accents. They may not be left out. If for some reason you can't print them, you have to add an e after the vowel (e.g. Ü becomes UE etc.). |
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  | Corne | | Registered: Nov. 1, 2000 |
| Registered: April 5, 2007 |  Posts: 1,059 |
| | Posted: | | | | Locality Netherlands
EAN 8-717774-230718 They Are Watching Us (Nos miran) - a Spanish movie
Credits all in caps. Some letters have accents, but some letters haven't although there should have been accents. | | | | Cor |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 17,309 |
| | Posted: | | | | out of a few titles sitting on my desk...
All US R1 Titles
- Cloverfield (097363520641)
- Jaws: The Revenge (025192347726) Cast names in all caps.. character names not.
- The Hand that Rocks the Cradle (71795100077) Cast names in all caps.. character names not.
- Demon Seed (012569675957) Cast names in all caps.. character names not. | | | | Pete |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 3,830 |
| | Posted: | | | | Hidden Agenda: 8713045201807 (Netherlands) | | | | Sources for one or more of the changes and/or additions were not submitted. Please include the sources for your changes in the contribution notes, especially for cast and crew additions. |
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,459 |
| | Posted: | | | | @ RHo
Not having a language that uses accents or diatricals or whatever they're called, I'm afraid I'm not up on the subtleties or differences between these characters.
Coming from an english background I was only ever taught that adding an accent changed the way you pronounced that letter.
Yes, I am talking about an umlaut. Does that differ from the French "é" in any way, because that's what's not on display in the French name? It may be that simply "accent" was the wrong word to use in this circumstance, in which case my apologies. | | | | Last edited: by northbloke |
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| Registered: March 10, 2007 | | Posts: 524 |
| | Posted: | | | | Accents and other characters are sometimes left off in credits, regardless of case, correct?
So my question is, how do you determine when the omission is due to letter case or some other reason? | | | | Invelos Software, Inc. Representative |
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,459 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quick answer - you can't!
From my personal knowledge only, I only know of the French language that habitually drops the accents from upper case characters. Although I've heard that this practice is not so common anymore in terms of everyday use.
I'm sure other users can say whether other languages have a tendency to do this or not. I know the German language doesn't.
But there are cases where accents are dropped because of typos, or due to technical limitations (unable to reproduce the character). As with everything else, there is no fixed pattern unfortunately. | | | | Last edited: by northbloke |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 17,309 |
| | Posted: | | | | With my limited knowledge all I ever do is if I see the accent and other characters on the capital letter version I use it on the lower case version. If it is not there I do not use it. The way I see it is if it is not there I have no real way of knowing 100% for sure that there should be one there... so I just don't use one. | | | | Pete |
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